Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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A man's perfection is his work.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.